The beta1 refers to the first beta of the rc1 official release in live format.

Okay, now I think I got it: The Live version is only now beginning the beta stage that the regular version has already completed. (The release candidate (RC) stage comes after beta, before the edition hits the prime time with the first actual distribution release)

Is that it?

What confused me (and, it seems, at least one other person who posted above) is the way both the regular as well as live the editions were announced and released together, at the same time, which would seem to suggest both being at the same release stage.

I take it that we should expect the first beta of 7.0 light before long?

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Not sure whats needed to explain the login we simply left the password blank for easy login so we thought.

But how were people supposed to know when that info was neither displayed at the login screen nor posted here along with the announcement?

(And the user name for the limited account was also changed from "vl" to "vector")

I really can't see a reason why any live CD shouldn't display the user name and password at the login screen.

This information is already public and easily obtained by any attacker. So the only thing really accomplished by not displaying the live login credentials, it would seem, is to cause inconvenience and aggravation for the (legitimate) user.

I believe anyone needing any degree of security while running a live CD should change the passwords with the passwd command as soon as they've logged-in.

That's how I see it, at least but I realize I could be overlooking something, so corrections or comments would be welcome.........

Thank you for posting the links to the md5sums.

I actually did find them on my own after posting but it took me a while because the links in the OP were directly to the ISO images and not to the directories that list both the ISOs as well as the checksum files.

I have now downloaded and tried the 7.0 Live Beta-1 release and have posted issues I encountered in the designated thread for reporting bugs...........

I was impressed with the Light edition of Vector Live 6.0; it is one of the only distros I have tried that will successfully run live on my now over ten-year old Dell Latitude C600 with 384 MB of RAM.

@Dig.Res.- i believe the "live" Versions are used as a test (although you could install from there) and so security (password & such) should not be in issue since you are not saving anything anywhere. Install the regular lite version & be secure. I'm glad to see your note about the Dell Latitude C600. I think i have a C500 with 384 that will make a good present for a cousin. As for the person asking about the KDE3.5 - moving to a KDE4.0 will require a much newer machine plus 1 GB of ram to cure frustration. It may be pretty, but i think life is too fast & short for KDE4.0 . mike

Andy Price has packaged k3b for Vectorlinux 7.0I have not announced it yet as it as for some reason it is not pulling the musicbrainz3 dependency when installed. (No fault of Andy's I think it is the musicbrainz, and am working on a fix.)Give it a try Grannygeek, just install musicbrainz 3.0.3 along with it and it should work fine. Would be interested in hearing how it works for you

The problem with adding k3b in the Standard iso is the size of all the kde4 dependencies.

I don't care if K3B is not in the ISO. I just want to be able to install it. From the repo is okay.

I no longer have any truly wimpy computers with tiny drives, so the size of KDE dependencies does not concern me. Is there an alternative with more capability than xfburn? I desperately need the ability to make a good copy of a DVD. These are home-burned and DRM is not an issue. But I want a duplicate copy in case the first one gets damaged. I don't like having to boot to Windows in order to make a DVD copy.--GrannyGeek

Andy Price has packaged k3b for Vectorlinux 7.0I have not announced it yet as it as for some reason it is not pulling the musicbrainz3 dependency when installed. (No fault of Andy's I think it is the musicbrainz, and am working on a fix.)Give it a try Grannygeek, just install musicbrainz 3.0.3 along with it and it should work fine. Would be interested in hearing how it works for you

Is it in the repo? If so, I'll install it this weekend and will add musicbrainz.--GrannyGeek

I installed K3B and two libmusicbrainz files from the repo. When I try to start k3b from the command line, I get:k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libkcddb.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Also, when I first tried to install k3b, Gslapt said it was missing a dependency for oxygen-icons. I installed oxygen-icons with Gslapt and restarted Gslapt. I got the same message about missing oxygen-icons when I again selected k3b. I installed it anyway.

I need to copy four DVDs today, so I'll see if I can take care of the missing libkcddb.

Just incidentally, if I recall correctly, when I installed K3B in earlier VectorLinuxes I needed just kdebase, kdelibs, and k3b. The K3B for VL7 lists quite a few more dependencies (I guess), but no kdebase. --GrannyGeek